Chicago Police Department

Established in the 1830s, the Chicago Police Department is the third-largest in the country with more than 12,000 employees. Since 2011, Garry McCarthy has served as superintendent. After homicides spiked in 2012, garnering Chicago national attention, the department has employed a strategy of flooding the city's violence-prone areas with additional officers in the summer, known as the Summer Surge Overtime Initiative.

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At least 10 people have been wounded in separate shootings since Friday evening across the city, police said.
A 21-year-old man was critically hurt and two 17-year-old boys were wounded in a shooting around 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the University Village...

A man was killed and at least 18 others have been wounded since Thursday afternoon across the city, police said.
Around 11:40 p.m., a 35-year-old man was shot to death and a 19-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the South Chicago neighborhood on...

A Chicago police officer was injured while tying to arrest a shoplifting suspect late Thursday in the South Loop neighborhood downtown.
A male attacker fled during an arrest attempt in the 1200 block of South Wabash Avenue around 11:10 p.m., said Officer...

Diana Leviton Gondek has spent much of the past year nose-to-nose with horses. They're an inanimate sort, rendered in fiberglass and fasteners — plus the paint the Naperville artist has applied to each of them, one inspired stroke after another, for...

A state correctional officer was wounded by police after an eight-hour standoff in Bronzeville ended with an exchange of gunfire early Thursday, authorities said.
The man, a former Chicago police officer, was shot around 3 a.m. after firing at officers...

An 8-month-old puppy was stolen at knife point from a rider on the CTA Orange Line, police said.
The theft took place about midnight Wednesday on a train headed for the 35th and Archer Orange Line stop, according to Officer Veejay Zala, a Chicago...

One person was killed and at least five have been wounded by gunfire citywide since Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The fatal shooting occurred about 3:40 a.m. Thursday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, said Officer Amina...

Felony corruption charges against former North Chicago Police Chief Michael Newsome, dismissed by a Lake County Circuit Court judge earlier this month, were reinstated Wednesday afternoon.
A Lake County grand jury indicted Newsome Wednesday on two counts...

After reading Tuesday’s “Lessons from Iraq and a police raid back home,” I cannot disagree more with the narrative written by Alex Horton.
Comparing police tactics and military tactics is inappropriate because they seek very different outcomes. Also,...

A silver van led police on an 8-mile chase through the West and South sides Monday night before crashing into two other vehicles, sending five people to hospitals, police said.
About 10:30 p.m., police officers in the East Garfield Park neighborhood...

Prosecutors told a judge Monday that they will ask a Lake County Grand Jury this week to re-indict former North Chicago Police Chief Michael Newsome on felony government theft charges.
Judge James Booras earlier this month dismissed two counts of theft...

Shots were fired by police on a suspect in the Englewood neighborhood Sunday morning, but no one was believed to have been injured, authorities said.
The Independent Police Review Authority was notified about 11:20 a.m. of the incident in which shots...

A man and a teenage boy were killed and nine others, including a 14-year-old boy, have been wounded since Friday afternoon in separate shootings on the South and West sides, police said.
A 32-year-old man was shot to death around 12:50 a.m. Saturday in...

Less than two years after police and Democratic National Convention demonstrators rioted in 1968 over the Vietnam War, police and young people battled anew in Grant Park — possibly more violently — over musical artists Sly and the Family Stone.The...

The mother of 13-month-old Dillan Harris clenched her fists and took a deep breath before stepping in front of a row of microphones at her lawyer's Near North Side offices Thursday.
"My son was innocent and he should not have died," Shatrelle...

The Benedictine University Police Department is inviting residents in the western suburbs to the college campus for a night of fun, public safety demonstrations and a display of police and fire vehicles from 5:00-8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4.
The...

Three men were shot to death and at least 10 other people were wounded since Friday evening across the city, police said.
A 23-year-old man died after he was shot in the head about 2:15 a.m. Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side,...

Jeffrey Allen would answer his work BlackBerry during Thanksgiving dinner, during his son's soccer match, on any number of Saturday afternoons.
The phone would buzz with work-related texts, emails and calls from the time he woke until he headed to...

More than 50 bicyclists made a special stop Sunday morning in Oak Forest, on their fourth and final day of riding across Illinois.
They came to honor the memory of fallen Oak Forest Police Officer Jim Morrissy, who was killed in a car crash while on duty...

A man was shot to death and at least 8 people, including a 12-year-old boy, were wounded in separate shootings since Saturday evening across the city, police said.
At 9:55 p.m. Saturday, a 25-year-old man died after he was shot in the East...